In the second installment of our ongoing series on the films and career of Yasujiro Ozu, we blaze through his first eight films (seven of which are competely lost) as we watch a Japanese slacker who loves American movies find his voice.

We enter one of the most diverse phases of Ozu's early filmography, covering college comedies (and dramedies), crime films, and melodramas, along with yet more Ozu films that have been completely lost.